The place we are staying in seems to be not what it is at face value... we are slowly suspecting that it may be a religious or racist cult. Not sure. We seem to be the only people staying here and there was a meeting of 100 plus people that totally looked like a white power conference. They were speaking afrikaans so we had no idea what they were actually saying, but it was sketch.
In our new place we fortunately have a tv... it has 3 channels. After watching African television for a short while we found that no one here knows what AIDS is or how it works. On one such show an expert was answering a young ladies question on having sex with an infected individual. The expert went on to say that each time she had sex with the infected partner her AIDS would be doubled (as in she would have twice the amount of AIDS as before). Other members of the community believe you have 50/50 odds of having AIDS... sad.
Driving on the left side of the road has not been too bad thus far.. but driving at night can be scary like when Jake yells "He's coming this way; he's got a bat!!" Our car is as described on the manual has "The Power to Surprise" this beast is a 5 speed manual 75hp Kia Rio. Rider lawnmowers can outrun us. Fortunately we purchased a GPS at the airport otherwise we wouldn't have found our way anywhere. The absolute best part of the GPS is the alerts. We have had the following alerts:
Pedestrian Alert - which we slowly determined is code for cops
Monkey Crossing Alert
Swooping Owl Alert
Crime Alert - which stopped once we left Johannesburg (the 5th most dangerous city in the world)
The GPS has only taken us down a few creepy dead end roads with very sketchy people walking down the middle of the street.
More to come...
Our plane to Joberg
Meat World!
Some quality bnb reading
Kia Rio!
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